Genomic insights into a new citrobacter koseri strain revealed gene exchanges with the virulence-associated Yersinia pestis pPCP1 plasmid

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Armougom, Fabrice ^a   Bitam, Idir ^b   Croce, Olivier ^a   Merhej, Vicky ^a   Barassi, Lina ^a   Nguyen, Ti Thien ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOUMERDES   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Citrobacter koseri; Genomics and evolution; Plague pathogenesis; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CITROBACTER KOSERI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84964330639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00340     Document Type: Article

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